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  • Post category:Feelings and Emotions / Mental health
  • Post published:September 10, 2016

For every feeling and situation, you can accept that there is an alternative – you can choose to interpret the situation a different way, soothe yourself, and then feel something different. No one else causes our feelings. Only we can choose and change them.

Source: How to Deal with Uncomfortable Feelings & Create Positive Ones @ tiny buddha: simple wisdom for complex lives

Image by MistWiz (Own work) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

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